Patients with pancreatic cancer should know: 1. Patient’s mentality: after surgical procedures and other treatment measures, pancreatic cancer is entirely possible to be cured. Only by adjusting the mentality, establishing confidence and actively cooperating with the treatment can the internal anti-disease mechanism of the body be mobilized, and negative pessimism is very detrimental to the recovery.
2.Diet for pancreatic cancer: After discharge from hospital, semi-liquid diet can be continued, such as lotus root powder, steamed egg, cereal porridge, rice porridge, rotten paste noodles, etc., gradually change from thin to thick, and transition to soft food or even normal diet about one month after surgery. Pay attention to eating less and more meals, and eat 5-8 meals a day as needed, and chew and swallow slowly when eating. Do not abstain from eating, all kinds of food as long as it is light, fresh, rich in nutrients, easy to digest can be eaten, do not eat spicy and stimulating food, prohibit smoking and alcohol.
3, rest position after surgery: do not lie down to eat, do not lie down immediately after meals, you can take a proper walk for about 30 minutes before going to bed, sleep with the upper body padded 30 degrees, try to sleep towards the side of the surgery.
Discomfort reactions Treatment: 1. Discomfort reactions after surgery: After surgery, there will be acid reflux, easy fullness, choking and coughing and other discomfort, because of the removal of the cardia, coupled with the gastrointestinal emptying function is weakened, so the food and gastric juice in the gastrointestinal sometimes reflux into the esophagus to cause discomfort, after the above-mentioned diet and position adjustment measures, generally can be alleviated, such as still can not be alleviated, you can take some drugs such as omeprazole, morphine If you can’t get relief, you can take some medications such as omeprazole, morphine, etc. to control it. If you have diarrhea, it is often related to gastrointestinal dysfunction after surgery. In addition to paying attention to clean food, avoid eating greasy food to avoid aggravating diarrhea symptoms. If you feel a pinprick-like pain and numbness in the surgical wound, it is related to the nerves of the chest wall cut off during the surgery, and this discomfort will only slowly subside after several months.
2.Follow-up: Long-term regular follow-up should be insisted. It should be reviewed every three months for two years after the operation, then every six months, and can be extended to once a year after the fifth year. The doctor will review your chest X-ray, chest CT, abdominal ultrasound, etc. Other examinations such as whole body bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging may be performed according to your needs.
3.Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer: If you need to receive post-operative chemotherapy, it usually starts 3-4 weeks after surgery. This program will be repeated once a month and may require 2-6 times depending on the situation. Before each chemotherapy, blood test should be done to check white blood cell and liver and kidney function. If white blood cell <3500 or abnormal liver and kidney function, chemotherapy should be temporarily suspended. Nourishment: 1. Radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer: If you need to receive radiotherapy, you should listen to the arrangement of radiotherapist and adhere to radiotherapy daily, usually starting 3-4 weeks after surgery, and the course of treatment will take about 2-6 weeks. 2.Chinese medicine treatment for pancreatic cancer: you can take Chinese medicine, including Chinese patent medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, at the same time of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It is recommended that you take the medicine under the guidance of an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner, and do not take some so-called secret recipes or partial prescriptions casually to avoid the harm of toxic side effects. Please note that it is completely wrong to say that Chinese medicine has no side effects. If necessary, you can also apply some immunomodulatory drugs and biological products such as interferon under the guidance of your doctor to enhance the anti-cancer mechanism in your body. 3.Nourishment: You can take some health care products to speed up the recovery, improve the immunity and reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, please note that the market of health care products is rather confusing at present, so please do not believe in the untrue propaganda of some unscrupulous manufacturers and be alert to being cheated.